Things you don't understand

17-07-2017 12:14PM

Why Electric Ireland are giving considerable grants (amounting to thousands of euro in the form of bill reductions in my case) to people to put energy saving devices into their homes - when EI make their money by selling energy. Surely they are doing themselves out of business?

Electric Ireland Energy Efficiency Incentive

Full list of Electric Ireland bill credits

According to Bonkers.ie their gas is cheaper than competitors even without this (Energia has the cheapest electricity). It's not like they are going to get it all back because they are charging more than their competitors.

_Roz_ · 17-07-2017 01:09PM

Honestly I used to like wearing my school uniforms. I'm a girl with zero interest in fashion who came from a relatively poor family, and not having to worry about fashion, wearing different clothes every day, wearing brand names etc etc was a godsend for me. I still had to worry about hair, make-up, the length of my skirt etc, even the type of plain black small-heel shoes I wore, but not the actual clothes.

I don't understand the habit Irish people have of talking over other people, and if two people start talking at the same time, they both continue talking until one backs down or until they successful each catch the attention of different people. It's spectacularly rude, and intimidating for reserved/quiet people. Some people do it more than others - but in groups of three or more, I will frequently just not bother contributing to the conversation because I refuse to talk over someone else until I 'win' the right to speak. Then I get asked why I'm so quiet. :pac:

Hector Bellend · 17-07-2017 01:39PM

migraines and quantum mechanics

Chancer3001 · 17-07-2017 01:50PM

Don't understand wind and temperature at all.

I get wind blows from high pressure to low pressure but where does the pressure come from? When it fills the low place surely the high place is screwed? Is there not enough air to go around or what?

Same with temperature. It's high pressure in Ireland today. Why? How? What's putting the pressure on the air? If there's more pressure on the air to cause it to heat up, is there more pressure on me ? Heating me up ?

Capt'n Midnight · 18-07-2017 05:32PM

Chancer3001 wrote: »

Don't understand wind and temperature at all.

I get wind blows from high pressure to low pressure but where does the pressure come from? When it fills the low place surely the high place is screwed? Is there not enough air to go around or what?

Same with temperature. It's high pressure in Ireland today. Why? How? What's putting the pressure on the air? If there's more pressure on the air to cause it to heat up, is there more pressure on me ? Heating me up ?

Heat makes things expand , which is why days are longer in summer, and expanded air is lighter so there is less pressure in the area.

The lighter air floats away leaving a vacuum which sucks in air from elsewhere.

As you well know there is a hole in the Ozone Layer so no, there isn't enough air to go around and as if that wasn't bad enough we are digging pits and mines so there is a lot of air underground that used to be overground.

Ipso · 18-07-2017 05:43PM

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Heat makes things expand , which is why days are longer in summer, and expanded air is lighter so there is less pressure in the area.

The lighter air floats away leaving a vacuum which sucks in air from elsewhere.

As you well know there is a hole in the Ozone Layer so no, there isn't enough air to go around and as if that wasn't bad enough we are digging pits and mines so there is a lot of air underground that used to be overground.

It is? Is that not something to do with the earth's orbit.

KungPao · 18-07-2017 06:04PM

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Heat makes things expand , which is why days are longer in summer, and expanded air is lighter so there is less pressure in the area.

The lighter air floats away leaving a vacuum which sucks in air from elsewhere.

As you well know there is a hole in the Ozone Layer so no, there isn't enough air to go around and as if that wasn't bad enough we are digging pits and mines so there is a lot of air underground that used to be overground.

begbysback · 18-07-2017 06:09PM

How one of my feet can still be considered a foot if it measures less than 12 inches

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 18-07-2017 06:28PM

begbysback wrote: »

How one of my feet can still be considered a foot if it measures less than 12 inches

Because a foot wasn't always 12 inches.

Junkyard Tom · 18-07-2017 06:36PM

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Heat makes things expand , which is why days are longer in summer

I was watching live Sith Ifrikin rugby last week and it got dark around 4.30pm, would that be because of the cold air coming up from Antarctica?

wexandproud · 18-07-2017 06:38PM

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Heat makes things expand , which is why days are longer in summer, and expanded air is lighter so there is less pressure in the area.

The lighter air floats away leaving a vacuum which sucks in air from elsewhere.

As you well know there is a hole in the Ozone Layer so no, there isn't enough air to go around and as if that wasn't bad enough we are digging pits and mines so there is a lot of air underground that used to be overground.

maybe we could start back filling the mines with rubble and stuff shur that would make some air come back to the top , and those hot air balloons , the great big ones , if we let one off wouldn't the flow of air out through the hole carry the balloon up and then it would get stuck in the hole and stop the leak. cant believe the scientists never thought of these two solutions

Paddy Cow · 18-07-2017 06:58PM

Junkyard Tom wrote: »

X + Y = XY

2 + 2 = (2)(2)
4 = 4
:P

stop animal cruelty · 18-07-2017 09:14PM

I cant my head around photos or videos.
The "capture" ....how ??

Quazzie · 18-07-2017 10:08PM

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Heat makes things expand , which is why days are longer in summer, .

Nope. That is solely down to the 23 degrees tilt of the earth on it's orbit around the sun

wexandproud · 18-07-2017 11:04PM

Quazzie wrote: »

Nope. That is solely down to the 23 degrees tilt of the earth on it's orbit around the sun

which varies by a few degrees due to earth ''wobble '' and some scientists say this is the biggest factor in climate change
in all fairness i thought [hope] captain mn was having a laugh with his post

Dramatik · 19-07-2017 03:59PM

Ed Sheeran

Capt'n Midnight · 21-07-2017 09:18PM

wexandproud wrote: »

maybe we could start back filling the mines with rubble and stuff shur that would make some air come back to the top ,

This BTW is exactly why young boys should not be let throw stones into the sea. It's exacerbating sea level rise.

vicwatson · 30-07-2017 02:11AM

Don't understand how a. A school insists on you buying their uniform in x place and b. Why the fook it costs 49€ for a poxy half zip from O'Neill's that basically comes free in a kelloggs cul camp. Fook off secondary schools - there must be money back to schools somewhere along this swizz

This Fat Girl Runs · 30-07-2017 02:51AM

Why I have The Cranberries Zombie song stuck in my head.

Mena · 30-07-2017 03:12AM

I don't understand why people don't understand things. In this day and age of google most things can be easily researched. Most things.

14-10-2017 10:24PM

Why can't the BBC with its massive budget find a few shillings for the technology to use the € symbol? Spelling out Euro each time is beyond belief.

LordSutch · 14-10-2017 10:32PM

Laser beams.

Beasty · 14-10-2017 10:40PM

The square root of minus one. I just cannot get my head around an imaginary number...

Capt'n Midnight · 14-10-2017 11:02PM

Beasty wrote: »

The square root of minus one. I just cannot get my head around an imaginary number...

everyone knows pi

e is the base for natural logarithm and when you do calculus , the derivative of e to the power of x , is .... itself :eek:

You'll love this then $a7464809a40f9e486de3a454745f572fbf8bb256$

storker · 14-10-2017 11:14PM

Why light has to be the fastest thing in the universe, rather than just the fastest thing we know about so far.

Just1more · 15-10-2017 12:06AM

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Ineedaname · 15-10-2017 12:46AM

storker wrote: »

Why light has to be the fastest thing in the universe, rather than just the fastest thing we know about so far.

Because the speed of light in a vacuum (c) is a universal constant. As any object with mass gains speed its inertia increases. This means it requires more and more energy to speed up. To reach c would require infinite energy which isn't possible.

Light itself has no mass. No mass means no inertia. So not only can it travel at c it MUST do so.

RainMakerToo · 15-10-2017 12:59AM

Ineedaname wrote: »

...
Light itself has no mass...

That's the key to it, because it has no mass... it's travelling as fast as anything can travel...

Ineedaname · 15-10-2017 01:11AM

RainMakerToo wrote: »

That's the key to it, because it has no mass... it's travelling as fast as anything can travel...

Also just to add the above is only true in a vacuum. In a medium like water light can travel slower. In an underwater reactor high energy particles are released that can travel faster than the light they emit. This leads to a blue glow called Cherenkov radiation.

Paddy Cow · 15-10-2017 01:17AM

How do I upload pictures from photo bucket to boards? I want to post pictures of my pets in the cool pets thread. I set up a photo bucket account and uploaded pictures to it but when I tried to embed them in a post on boards I failed

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